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Talent Alone Doesn’t Make a Team
Is Your Leadership Team In Need of Alignment?
It is common to chalk up leadership team problems to clashes of personalities. To assume they are an inevitable part of having a team of highly driven individuals. To think the company’s leaders are too busy running their departments to make time building solid working relationships with each other.
Yet, understanding how to maximize the potential of the leadership team can be a CEO’s most frustrating challenge. Most regret not getting a handle on it sooner.
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New Team Dynamics
You have a brand new leadership team or several new members on it
Navigating Big Shifts
Your company is facing significant changes, rapid growth or uncertainty
Leadership Instability
You are experiencing high turnover among your leaders
In addition to these scenarios, there are day-to-day behaviors that can point to critical – but solvable – problems in your team’s alignment.
What Misalignment Really Looks Like
Signs Your Executive Team Lacks Cohesion
Lack of Trust
The team members are guarded and unwilling to share information, wins or challenges with each other. A few loud voices do all the talking while other leaders’ opinions get quickly brushed aside.
Lack of Open Communication
The team has a pattern of avoiding hard conversations. No one speaks up or disagrees during meetings but after decisions are made, the leaders complain they aren’t on board with the team’s direction.
Siloed Mentality
Your leaders are only concerned with hitting their own metrics and seem disengaged with anything that doesn’t involve their functional team. The different parts of the company don’t know what the others are doing.
Power Struggles
Your leaders are constantly competing for resources. Team meetings feel confrontational, making it hard to reach consensus on core issues. Side conversations are the norm.
Lack of Mutual Accountability
Meetings often devolve into finger-pointing, with team members displaying a “not my problem or fault” attitude. When issues arise, the CEO can’t pinpoint where things are falling through the cracks.
Lack of Alignment On Priorities
Your executives are focusing their departments’ time and energy on competing priorities.
Misalignment Has a Ripple Effect
The Impact of Leadership Team Problems on the Company
Left unresolved, any of these patterns can affect your company’s bottom line.
When the leaders are not acting as a unified team, their departments can’t cooperate effectively and are more likely to miss deadlines. Crises are met with chaos. Issues are swept under the rug. Mistakes go undetected, which can lead to customer dissatisfaction. Morale and productivity suffer, potentially leading to key personnel quitting or employee burnout.
The company is slow to innovate or make progress on key strategic goals and begins to lose its footing in the market.
Misalignment isn’t just inconvenient—it’s expensive.
If you are struggling with any of these issues, we can help.
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